Caleva has recently supplied the University with laboratory equipment for the development of a research project designed to develop several “socially important” drugs for use in Argentina. The Project is being managed by Dr Arturo Hoya who brings his many years of successful commercial experience with one of the most successful pharmaceutical companies in Argentina, Laboratorios Bagó*.

Dr Hoya made the following comments after a short period of training and support from Caleva technical staff:

In the Medicines Development Unit of the Faculty of Pharmacy
at the University of La Plata (Argentina) a training was completed in both
theory and practice of the basic principles of the process of extrusion and
spheronization.

Participating in the training were pharmaceutical
professionals and technicians from the medicines manufacturing plant of the
Biological Institutes of the University of La Plata and the training was guided
by a specialist representative from Caleva Process Solutions Ltd.

The different trials using microcrystalline cellulose
allowed us to see how the quantity of water used in the granulation would
affect the quality of the pellets obtained. The effect of the spheronization
speed and time on the size and shape of the pellets was also demonstrated.

The training finished with an analysis to complete the
understanding of the great versatility that the Caleva equipment offers for
extrusion and spheronization as part of the development of innovative solid
dose pharmaceutical formulations.